"a netbase — a network-oriented database — that is, an embedded, disk-based, fully transactional Java persistence engine that stores data structured in networks rather than in tables." - Alex Payne
"Discussions about how online social networks affect relationships through greater visibility and connectivity. Continuing the discussion started as a Core Conversation at SxSW Interactive 2008." - Alex Payne
"Free your feed from authentication or invalid SSL certificates for use in the feed reader of your choice." I wrote a command line version of this a few weeks back, but this is much nicer. - Alex Payne
Intends to make Hadoop easier. "Cascading uses a "pipe and filters" model for defining data processes. It efficiently supports splits, joins, grouping, and sorting. These are the only processing concepts the developer needs to "think" in." - Alex Payne
"a Python-based framework for configuring, compiling and installing applications. It is a replacement for other tools such as Autotools, Scons, CMake or Ant." - Alex Payne